That's the point. It's not a trivia quiz. You aren't expected to know the exact answers nor are the questions supposed to be common knowledge. That's why it is a estimation study.
I do agree with the locational bias of the quiz. The author pointed this out too. He didn't expect it to go much out of GB.
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How true. But nobody comes to slashdot for an objective opinion.
So, with this route, I am 3 commands away from what I want. I seem to recall some design essay about everything being at most 3 clicks. Looks good to me.
Three clicks? How do you figure that?
There are 5 commands listed before the mount command. Even after you get to the mount command, you have to read the man page for it which contains a lot of stuff they won't need. Personally, I would have given up by then.
With Windows (and even in DOS,) explicit mounting is not necessary. All you have to do is stick the floppy in the drive then navigate to it through explorer.
Use Gentoo, and have bleeding edge software at the cost of long install times.
Not to be a zealot here, but you can emerge many applications as binaries by using "emerge -k." It's just that most people seem to view the performance increase as being worth the compile times.
But with property tax, business licenses, sales tax, etc the way they are. It's basically impossible for an impoverished person to set up a tent and start a business selling home grown eggplants and cucumbers using the few dollars in capital they got from panhandling
Well the less taxes that there are, the worse the education system is, the worse off roads are, less social security, and the wider the gap between rich and poor.
Towards the end of the cold war, the russians were being outpaced. It was mainly from budget reasons. Their shuttle project was a failure and they didn't have the money to compete with Reagan's Star Wars program. The Russians clearly had the upper hand at the beginning of the space race though which is why the US poured tons of money into it.
I'm glad that a major OSS project has seen through the FUD and is speaking out on behalf of the community. I seem to have lost my faith in humanity, but events like this start to restore it.
And how is Microsoft proposing a standard considered FUD?
Population density - USA - 30 people per kilometre squared. Sweden - 20 people per kilometre squared. South Korea - 291 people per kilometre squared.
The larger the area in question, the less the population density means. There are very densly populated areas like New England. Then you have places that are very lightly populated. Theres one county in Kentucky that has more people in it then the entire state of North Dakota. Look at a population density map of the US and you'll see the problem.
I don't think your observations are really all that fair. You are looking at that through our culture. That is the way things were done in that culture.
Did you ever wonder if there was a pharoh that was uneasy at the thought of having their body put through the embalming process? What with their brains being pulled out of their nose and their organs being put into jars I would expect that some of them were not to excited about the prospect.
Perhaps they would be horrified that they could just be placed in a common box under 6 feet of dirt. Perhaps they wouldn't much like the idea of cremation either. So their dead body goes through a ridual and they get a lavish burial.
Not to mention marrying and having sex with their sisters. I bet that some pharohs were kind of upset about that, but did it anyways because it was not only expected, but required to make sure that the power system continued to function. The believers knew that this was proper according to the religion and it would be improper to change it, possible weakening the strength of the pharoh who tried to do it.
Perhaps they did it to keep their royal blood line pure. You can't mix royal blood with common blood. Nearly every nation with royalty has only married other royalty which leads to a shallow gene pool.
Also, I find it strange that with the current climate of acceptable atheism and self directed spiurituality that varys wildly from person to person as a cultural refrence point that almost everyone seems to have the impression that past cultures' populations were all 100% believers, completely succeptible to religious indoctrination.
This may be more of a culture issue too. If people 1000 years from now find a US dollar that says "In God We Trust." along with various parts of the government that mention religion, they might conclude that the US has a religious government (no flames here please.)
Personally, I believe there is an inate instinct in man to worship something, whether that be a god, nature or himself. That's besides the point though.
Next thing you know Microsoft has a new monopoly on DRM and makes more money than the record companies and movie studios do on legal downloads
No, next thing you know, you'll be coming to a false conclusion
People need an operating system. People need a web-browser. Many people need an office suite. People don't have to have pay-to-play music downloads. If microsoft shuts out the competition with legal-downloads and their prices become unreasonable, people won't use their services. They will buy the cds or get their music illegaly. I don't think many people are going to pay much more then $0.99 a song.
By 'a zillion' I take it you mean 'more than one'? My girlfriend's PowerBook thrashes like hell with only 256Mb of RAM. Mine has 1Gb, and rarely uses more than 600-700Mb (I'm using ~400Mb right now with only a few Internet apps running). 512Mb is a sensible medium.
I am going to have to concur with that. My powerbook thrashes without additional ram. I have 768 in it now and it's much better. I could stand to use a little more though. OS X seems to need more memory then XP. It could be the fact that I leave more programs running in my powerbook though
The fact it's a military email is enough. You don't need to guarantee it.
No, it is not. Ever gotten spam from yourself? It is trivial to spoof the sending address with smtp. Someone could easily send votes for unsuspecting soldiers or intercept it and change every instance of "Bush" with "Kerry".
Unless they do somthing with encryption and public keys or the like, it will be impossible to guarantee who sent it.
Apparently, not everyone believes the stem cells played a role. If you look at this article here at cnn.com there is the following quote.
Paul Brown, head of the Center for Tissue Regeneration Science at University College in London, said it's not clear any major scientific ground has been broken, and tests may not be able to show whether the new bone came from stem cells, rather than from the growth factor alone.
The operation put established techniques together, resembling a well-known experiment in which University of Massachusetts scientists grew a human ear using a mold on the back of a mouse in 1995, he said.
"If you put loads of blocks of bone mineral into a hole and you induce cellular activity by putting in growth factors, it's a standard approach that people have used to induce the body's own response,'' said Brown, who was not connected with the study. "Clearly some of them are going to work and it sounds like for this patient, this has worked.''
Please somebody tell me that they will cooperate with the Beagle project on this and don't reinvent the wheel yet again. It would be a real pain in the ass to have too indexes wasting your hd space which basically do the same thing.
Well, you could could say the same thing about people who have both KDE and Gnome on their system. I won't find it too hard to believe that two different desktop environments are going to have two different indexing schemes. Just like they have different file managers, default text editors and so on.
Now instead of getting all our cars to drive environmentally friendlier and less expensive (keywords: electrical, hybrid, bio-fuel), we drop the effort and start producing a new kind of vehicle that flies.
Alternatively, this might be the step needed to step away from fossil-fuels.
...and they can finally shed all the inhibitions and behave like the jerks they want to be (when pushed around), instead of the nice geeks they are.
I am going to have to disagree here. I believe its more along the lines of behaving like the jerks they are inside instead of the nice geeks they are outside. I think peoples attitudes on the internet are the way they really are, and they restrain theirselves in the real world.
I'd love to ask them. The problem is that neither one of them cares enough to address the questions/concerns of people who can't contribute to their funds.
No reporter ever asks something like, "Do you really think a new 75 cent a gallon gas tax even approaces the outer reaches of coherent sanity at this point in time, and have you considered how much revenue it will actually bring in when the California economy basically evaporates overnight?"
I don't that is the place of a reporter to do. At least not apart from opinion pieces in newspapers. I read newspapers and watch news programs to get the unbiased facts. If the reporter wants to cover people expressing their dissenting views, I'm all for that. Granted, the extent of which the news covers these criticisms shows their own bias. It's not a perfect system but I prefer news that provides the straight unbiased facts on both sides of the issues, not news that tries to make me come to their conclusion.
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That's the point. It's not a trivia quiz. You aren't expected to know the exact answers nor are the questions supposed to be common knowledge. That's why it is a estimation study.
I do agree with the locational bias of the quiz. The author pointed this out too. He didn't expect it to go much out of GB.
How true. But nobody comes to slashdot for an objective opinion.
So, with this route, I am 3 commands away from what I want. I seem to recall some design essay about everything being at most 3 clicks. Looks good to me.
Three clicks? How do you figure that?
There are 5 commands listed before the mount command. Even after you get to the mount command, you have to read the man page for it which contains a lot of stuff they won't need. Personally, I would have given up by then.
With Windows (and even in DOS,) explicit mounting is not necessary. All you have to do is stick the floppy in the drive then navigate to it through explorer.
Use Gentoo, and have bleeding edge software at the cost of long install times.
Not to be a zealot here, but you can emerge many applications as binaries by using "emerge -k." It's just that most people seem to view the performance increase as being worth the compile times.
But with property tax, business licenses, sales tax, etc the way they are. It's basically impossible for an impoverished person to set up a tent and start a business selling home grown eggplants and cucumbers using the few dollars in capital they got from panhandling
Well the less taxes that there are, the worse the education system is, the worse off roads are, less social security, and the wider the gap between rich and poor.
If you put more RAM in, you will notice a difference. As for your XP box, google for "regclean." It works wonders
Towards the end of the cold war, the russians were being outpaced. It was mainly from budget reasons. Their shuttle project was a failure and they didn't have the money to compete with Reagan's Star Wars program. The Russians clearly had the upper hand at the beginning of the space race though which is why the US poured tons of money into it.
I'm glad that a major OSS project has seen through the FUD and is speaking out on behalf of the community. I seem to have lost my faith in humanity, but events like this start to restore it.
And how is Microsoft proposing a standard considered FUD?
Population density - USA - 30 people per kilometre squared. Sweden - 20 people per kilometre squared. South Korea - 291 people per kilometre squared.
The larger the area in question, the less the population density means. There are very densly populated areas like New England. Then you have places that are very lightly populated. Theres one county in Kentucky that has more people in it then the entire state of North Dakota. Look at a population density map of the US and you'll see the problem.
I don't think your observations are really all that fair. You are looking at that through our culture. That is the way things were done in that culture.
Did you ever wonder if there was a pharoh that was uneasy at the thought of having their body put through the embalming process? What with their brains being pulled out of their nose and their organs being put into jars I would expect that some of them were not to excited about the prospect.
Perhaps they would be horrified that they could just be placed in a common box under 6 feet of dirt. Perhaps they wouldn't much like the idea of cremation either. So their dead body goes through a ridual and they get a lavish burial.
Not to mention marrying and having sex with their sisters. I bet that some pharohs were kind of upset about that, but did it anyways because it was not only expected, but required to make sure that the power system continued to function. The believers knew that this was proper according to the religion and it would be improper to change it, possible weakening the strength of the pharoh who tried to do it.
Perhaps they did it to keep their royal blood line pure. You can't mix royal blood with common blood. Nearly every nation with royalty has only married other royalty which leads to a shallow gene pool.
Also, I find it strange that with the current climate of acceptable atheism and self directed spiurituality that varys wildly from person to person as a cultural refrence point that almost everyone seems to have the impression that past cultures' populations were all 100% believers, completely succeptible to religious indoctrination.
This may be more of a culture issue too. If people 1000 years from now find a US dollar that says "In God We Trust." along with various parts of the government that mention religion, they might conclude that the US has a religious government (no flames here please.)
Personally, I believe there is an inate instinct in man to worship something, whether that be a god, nature or himself. That's besides the point though.
Next thing you know Microsoft has a new monopoly on DRM and makes more money than the record companies and movie studios do on legal downloads
No, next thing you know, you'll be coming to a false conclusion
People need an operating system. People need a web-browser. Many people need an office suite. People don't have to have pay-to-play music downloads. If microsoft shuts out the competition with legal-downloads and their prices become unreasonable, people won't use their services. They will buy the cds or get their music illegaly. I don't think many people are going to pay much more then $0.99 a song.
By 'a zillion' I take it you mean 'more than one'? My girlfriend's PowerBook thrashes like hell with only 256Mb of RAM. Mine has 1Gb, and rarely uses more than 600-700Mb (I'm using ~400Mb right now with only a few Internet apps running). 512Mb is a sensible medium.
I am going to have to concur with that. My powerbook thrashes without additional ram. I have 768 in it now and it's much better. I could stand to use a little more though. OS X seems to need more memory then XP. It could be the fact that I leave more programs running in my powerbook though
The fact it's a military email is enough. You don't need to guarantee it.
No, it is not. Ever gotten spam from yourself? It is trivial to spoof the sending address with smtp. Someone could easily send votes for unsuspecting soldiers or intercept it and change every instance of "Bush" with "Kerry".
Unless they do somthing with encryption and public keys or the like, it will be impossible to guarantee who sent it.
How would they guarantee the sender?
Please somebody tell me that they will cooperate with the Beagle project on this and don't reinvent the wheel yet again. It would be a real pain in the ass to have too indexes wasting your hd space which basically do the same thing.
Well, you could could say the same thing about people who have both KDE and Gnome on their system. I won't find it too hard to believe that two different desktop environments are going to have two different indexing schemes. Just like they have different file managers, default text editors and so on.
It would be nice to see a standard though.
Come on, this is ridiculous. If you disagree with what we're saying, then that's fine, but don't imply positions that we've never taken.
That statement could adequetly go in almost any thread on slashdot.
I wish you the best with your efforts but don't expect too many reasonable discussions here.
I believe it was Gene Simmons who said, "You're an artist? Paint my house."
Now instead of getting all our cars to drive environmentally friendlier and less expensive (keywords: electrical, hybrid, bio-fuel), we drop the effort and start producing a new kind of vehicle that flies.
Alternatively, this might be the step needed to step away from fossil-fuels.
I think most humans have a problem with 1D; they can't even stay in the middle of their own lane.
Yeah... That's 2D. 1D is a single point.
...and they can finally shed all the inhibitions and behave like the jerks they want to be (when pushed around), instead of the nice geeks they are.
I am going to have to disagree here. I believe its more along the lines of behaving like the jerks they are inside instead of the nice geeks they are outside. I think peoples attitudes on the internet are the way they really are, and they restrain theirselves in the real world.
What about a slash-had, where everyone just complains period.
I'd love to ask them. The problem is that neither one of them cares enough to address the questions/concerns of people who can't contribute to their funds.
The fact is that for the average PC user, Linux will work just fine. There will be a learning curve, but that would be true of any new technology.
Linux is just fine for a desktop as long as the user doesn't have to set it up or administer it.
No reporter ever asks something like, "Do you really think a new 75 cent a gallon gas tax even approaces the outer reaches of coherent sanity at this point in time, and have you considered how much revenue it will actually bring in when the California economy basically evaporates overnight?"
I don't that is the place of a reporter to do. At least not apart from opinion pieces in newspapers. I read newspapers and watch news programs to get the unbiased facts. If the reporter wants to cover people expressing their dissenting views, I'm all for that. Granted, the extent of which the news covers these criticisms shows their own bias. It's not a perfect system but I prefer news that provides the straight unbiased facts on both sides of the issues, not news that tries to make me come to their conclusion.